/*
 * $Header: /home/cvs/jakarta-tomcat/src/share/org/apache/jasper/compiler/CoreElement.java,v 1.3 2004/02/23 06:22:36 billbarker Exp $
 * $Revision: 1.3 $
 * $Date: 2004/02/23 06:22:36 $
 *
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package org.apache.jasper.compiler;

import org.apache.jasper.JasperException;

/**
 * The core elements we recognize... these are stateless abstractions that
 * represent the parsing action for a core tag. 
 *
 * @author Anil K. Vijendran
 */
interface CoreElement {
    /**
     * Return true if the input contained the sequence that matched 
     * the action corresponding to this core tag.
     */
    boolean accept(ParseEventListener listener, JspReader reader, Parser parser) 
	throws JasperException;
}
